Protests
Spread in Southern Mongolia, Thousands More Take to the Streets

SMHRIC

May 26, 2011

New York

Mongolian
herders and
students
protest in
Huveet Shar
Banner

Mongolian
herders
and students
protest in
Left
Ujumchin
Banner

Following a series of
protests in Right
Ujumchin Banner and
Shiliin-hot City, on May
26, 2011 local time,
thousands more Mongolian
herders and students
took to the streets in
Huveet Shar Banner
("Xiang Huang Qi" in
Chinese) and Left
Ujumchin Banner ("Dong Wu Qi" in Chinese) in
Shiliin-gol League of
Southern (Inner)
Mongolia to urge the
Chinese authorities to
respect the Mongolian
herders' right to their
land and right to
maintain their
traditional way of life.
Protestors held the
banners and posters of
"defend the rights of
Mongols", "defend the
homeland" and shouted
slogans to march toward
the Banner governments
(see pictures below).

The brutal killing of
Mr. Mergen, an organizer
of Mongolian herders in
Right Ujumchin Banner,
on May 11, 2011, by a
Chinese coal hauling
truck driver ignited a
series of herders'
protests in the capitals
of both Right Ujumchin
Banner and Shiliin-gol
League. On the morning
of May 25, 2011, nearly
two thousands Mongolian
students took to the
streets and gathered in
front of the League
capital Shiliin-hot to
protest the authorities'
failure to redress the
cases of Mr. Mergen and
other herders who had a
deadly clash with
Chinese miners in the
League's Abag Banner ("A
Ba Ga Qi" in Chinese).

A well-arranged
timetable for the
upcoming protests in
almost all Leagues of
Southern Mongolia is
widely circulated among
the Mongols through
social networking tools
including QQ and
FaceBook, as follows:

May 26, 7:00AM, at the
Sports Square in Huveed
Shar Banner ("Huang Qi"
in Chinese);

May 27, 8:00AM, at the
Banner Park in Alshaan
Left Banner ("A Zuo Qi"
in Chinese);

May 29, 8:00AM, at the
Main Square in Ereen-hot
City ("Er Lian Hao Te"
in Chinese);

May 30, 8:00AM, at the
Chinggis Khan Square in
Hulun Boir League ("Hu
Lun Bei Er" in Chinese);

June 2, 8:00AM, in
Ulaanhad City ("Chi Feng"
in Chinese).

The timetable also
called upon "all Mongols
to inform each other to
take to the streets to
defend the lands and
rights of the Mongols".

Echoing the spreading
protests within Southern
Mongolia, overseas
Southern Mongolian
communities are planning
to stage an
unprecedented scale of
simultaneous protests in
front of Chinese
embassies in the United
States (Washington DC
and New York), Japan,
Mongolia, Germany,
Sweden, Norway, France,
and Netherlands on the
day of May 30 (May 29 in
North America) at 12:00
PM.